Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-03-21

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were compressed sickness, death obsequies.
lou were SO lonely that 100 people coming
iii'o 'iie mouse did not break up the solitari.
ness. You were almost killed with the
uollleStlc calamity. A few formal, perfume
eofy words OF consolation were uttered on the
STAIRS before you went to the grave; but Won
wanted some one to come and talk over tho
"noie matter, and recite the alleviations. and
uecipner The lessons of the dark bereavement
NO one came. Many time you could NOT
steep until or O'Clock in the morning
--... .nen your s,e-p was !. ..-oubled dream, in
which were re-enacted all the scene OF SICK,
ness. and parting, and dissolution Oh, what
days and nights they wereI No man seemed
to care for your soul
There was another occasion when your
heart was very susceptible. There was
great awakening. There were hundreds Of
people who pressed into the kingdom of God;
some of them acquaintance, some business
associates, yes, perhaps some members Of your
own family were baptized by sprinkling or
immersion. Christian people thought of you,
and they called at your store, but you were
out on business They stopped at your house;
you had gone around to spend the evening
They sent kindly message to you; somehow,
by accident, you did not get it. The lifeboat
of the Gospel swept through the surf and
everybody seemed to get in but you. Every
thing seemed to escape you. One touch of
personal sympathy would have pushed you
into the kingdom of God When on COM
nunion day your friends went in, and your
sons and daughters went into the church, you
buried your face in your handkerchief and
sobbed: Why am left out! Everybody
seems to get saved but me. No man cares for
my soul"
Hearken to revelation have to make. 1t
is astartling statement. 1t will so surprise
you that / must prove it as go on. Instead
of this total indifference all about YOU in re-
gard to your soul, have to tell you that
heaven, earth and he'll are after your immor-
tai spirit-earth to cheat it, hell to destroy it,
heaven to redeem it. Although you may be
a stranger to the Christians in this house,
thei: faces would glow and their hearts would
bound if they saw you make one step heaven
ward. SO intricate and far reaching is this
web Of sympathy that l could by one word
rouse great many prayers in your behalf.
No one cares for your SOUL Why, one signal
of distress on your part would thrill this audi
ence with holy excitement. If boat in any
of war, and from the sloops, and from the
steamers the flying paddles would pull to the
rescue. And if now you would lift one signal
Of distress all these voyagers OF eternity
would bear down toward you and bring you
relief. But no! you are like q ship ON fire
at sea. They keep the matches down,
and the captain is frenzied, and he
gives orders that no enc hail the passing
ching pa chon oil 10
vessel in Hamburg or on the bottom of the
ocean, and don't care which" Yonder is q
ship OF the White Star line passing Yonder
one of the National line Yonder one
of the Cunard line Yonder one of the
Inman line. But they know not there is any
calamity happening on that one vessel Oh!
if the captain would only put his trumpet to
his lip, and cry out: Lower your boats!
Bear down this wayl We are burning upl
Fire! Fire" No. No. No signal is given
If that vessel perishes, having hailed no one,
whose fault viii it be? Win 1t be the fault of
the ship that hid its calamity, or will it be
the fault of the vessels that, passing on the
high seas, would have been glad to furnish re-
lief if it had been only asked? In other words,
my brother, if you miss heaven it will be
your own fault.
No one care for your soul! Why, in all the
ages there have been men whose entire bust
'ss was soul saving. In this work Munson
down under the knives of the cannibals
he had come to save, and Robert Nc
-, preached himself to death by so years
s,,a John Bunyan was thrown into
20 an, Bedfordshire, and JehRdi Ash
,,esson in II the malarias OF the African
lne o,.a,red b care hundreds and thousands
-. and thef> and women now who are
lug ! ~ ;stiaa men aching, living, dying, to
raying, ton.,ug' pie
ave soals. .or YOU soul! HAYS &C. ..
No one care ,sls about it9 l know it
,eard how Christ l. ales from Bethlehem to
vas only five or SIX >and the deathplace Of
oalsals hn NJ Who can tell n r,a How
Chris., uu NC tbn we to the Sic ,o;Ios hac,,
was = ". - down. how mai. +ha
many n TSe ,lace q, his departure ="
agun' 80 a, snlendos and pomp' all IL.
i 70 facine his til, one; his name the
. u1.r.,'s IN every song and the inscflp-
ens. - -, avorv banner; his ,eHdng pace
cat+lsnen. ma.odorous with unwas, o. :. 4a ~
end dogs growing in and out OF inc .'D "a
D., If !. weary mother who had Journe, eu
.ybtv mifss in severe unheath thaV eh'
3;aht find tse right place for the Lords ma
itv-born, not as other princes, under 1 sne
h of chandelier, but under lantern Tl
ug by rope to the roof OF the BARN. vo IN
place Christ started to save you, .o, nvui
vorr face, your time, your eternity
rist's mind. Sometimes travelling on
back to escape olt Herod,s massacre
aes attempting nervous sleep on th'
Inside, sometimes earning ms preaA
be carpentry of pillow. In euaran
stones of the field, by eaeir snap
looking like the loaves o. preao
his hunger. Yet all the tim
after you. With drenched Goa
na surf at Genessaret. Howied afee
oa thirsty mob. Denounced as
th. Iourning over doomed cit,
Oo0 1.oa ~ tl,a sight Of the shin